Mario Lombardo wrote:
> Is there a way to create a pseudo block device piping to a real
> network file system via SMB or NFS?
NFS works by direct inode reference, so this is impossible. It _could_
be possible to do this with Samba, but I'd have to think how it might be
possible. It would definitely have to be done at the Linux kernel level
-- using some modifications of the VFS and the smbfs support.
Fortunately, you _could_ create a local socket file and that would
stream data to/from a remote socket port. This is actually trival once
you do it. It all depends if the program sees that the file is a
"socket" and refuses to connect to it.
> I'm trying to circumvent the limitations of Tolisgroup's proprietary
> BRU Desktop 17.0 backup program that backs up only locally attached
> devices.
I know this isn't the answer you are looking for, but consider moving
away from BRU then. It's just a glorified implementation of GNU Tar the
last time I checked.
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